Rob Relyea, a Principal Program Manager on the Kinect for Windows team joins us again on Channel 9 to discuss all of the new features with the 1.5 release of the Kinect for Windows SDK. Download the 1.5 Release at KinectforWindows.com [00:33] Overview of the Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 Release…

In part 1, STL focuses on Name Lookup, which is a surprisingly complex process. Remember Herb Sutter's great GotW post (#30, to be precise) on Name Lookup? Here's the problem from that post, to refresh your memory (Thanks to Herb for providing information like this on GotW!): In the following code,…

It's been way too long since Dare Obasanjo (of RSS Bandit and Carnage4Life fame) has appeared on C9. The last time was several years ago in an interview conducted by me and Scoble on a summer day outside of building 35 on the main MS campus in Redmond. What's Dare been up to since we last spoke?…

At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9. Here, Erik interviews…

Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012 for a free, all-day event focused on building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++. These Windows-specific talks will use both portable ISO C++ and Visual C++-specific compiler extensions; for…

At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9.Here, Erik interviews…

Welcome to the 9th installment of GoingNative. Charles flies solo this time around as Diego is on a well-deserved break from work. At GoingNative 2012, Herb Sutter addressed the need for more general purpose standard C++ libraries - high level libraries - for use in modern computing. So,…

Achievements For Windows AzureIn January, we released Visual Studio Achievements to the delight of the developer community -- 80,000+ downloads and counting! With cloud computing being all the rage these days, we thought it made sense to cook up some achievements for Windows Azure. As such, we…

Today we'll host the first ever patterns & practices Symposium online on Channel 9! Microsoft patterns & practices symposiums are held regularly in the U.S. and abroad, with top speakers on current topics. Most of the speakers are from the Microsoft patterns & practices (p&p) team.…

At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9. Here, Erik interviews…